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Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How organizations can create more value with better management of complexity by abandoning both hard and soft approaches I agree…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article by Nicholas Kristof for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * WHEN terrorists in Nigeria organized a…
Read MoreEmployee Engagement in Theory and Practice Catherine Truss, Rick Delbridge, Kerstin Alfes, Amanda Shantz, and Emma Sloane, Co-Editors Routledge /Taylor & French Group (2014) Diverse perspectives on employee engagement and the practical implications of emerging engagement theories What we have…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article written by Yvonne Sell and Georg Vielmetter for Talent Management magazine. In it, they explain why a business landscape transformed by today’s global megatrends will require a different kind of leadership. To read…
Read MoreJohn Cox is president of The Cox Learning Group and a highly-regarded authority on attracting, hiring, and training high-potential workers and then retaining them at a time when competition for talent is greater than ever before. In recent years, he…
Read MoreThe concept is so simple and yet so difficult, it seems, for most people to embrace: We have two eyes and two ears but only one mouth so we should, therefore, spend 80% of our time listening and observing, and…
Read MoreGamify: How Gamification Motivates People to Do Extraordinary Things Brian Burke Bibliomotion (2014) How and why focusing on gamification can help organizations to motivate their people to achieve shared goals I was introduced to game theory when I enrolled in…
Read MoreHumans of New York is among the best books I have read in recent years. It features Brandon Stanton’s photos and comments by/about people in the five boroughs of NYC. First, a sample; then a link to his website. “My…
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Michael Marquardt on “How Action Learning Develops Questioning Leaders”
According to Michael Marquardt in Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask (Second Edition), asking the right questions is one of the most important — and yet most under-appreciated — skills that executives…
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